Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . LOOKING UP THE HUDSON FROM CLAREMONT. every suggestion of the want and wretched-ness, the cruelty, oppression, and strife whichsociety acknowledges as its shame, but itsmotive is in refreshing contrast to the devour-ing ambition, the strenuous energy, the eager-ness, the adventure, the s])irit of i)rogress whichthe same civilization boasts of as its distinguish- ing glory. To the imagination it suggests thesimplicity, the dignity, the innocence, the con-servatism, the freedom, the quietness, the con-templative leisure of the i
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . LOOKING UP THE HUDSON FROM CLAREMONT. every suggestion of the want and wretched-ness, the cruelty, oppression, and strife whichsociety acknowledges as its shame, but itsmotive is in refreshing contrast to the devour-ing ambition, the strenuous energy, the eager-ness, the adventure, the s])irit of i)rogress whichthe same civilization boasts of as its distinguish- ing glory. To the imagination it suggests thesimplicity, the dignity, the innocence, the con-servatism, the freedom, the quietness, the con-templative leisure of the ideal pastoral life;and while it possesses the mind it is a signalrelief from the wear and weariness, the strainand pressure, the turbulence and discontent, RIVERSIDE PARK. 913. The fierce confederate stormOf sorrow barricadocd evermoreWithin the walls of cities. The restful charm of Central Park has aileeper reason than the marked antithesis tophysical conditions of rigid confinement be-tween walls of stone and upon streets of stone,which is offered by its broad rural views, itsopenness and airiness and spacious skies. Inspite of the salient scenery about it, its narrowlimits and originally rugged surface, it em-bodies with rare success the tranquilizing pas-toral idea. Its scant meadow-land is notfenced off by well-defined boundaries to ad-vertise its meagerness, but is allowed to flowaround wooded knolls and lose itself in grassyalcoves which wind among the trees and leadthe fancy onward with fair promise of broaderfields beyond. Even the bolder features ofthe park and its passages of sylvan pic-turesqueness are all subordinate to its centralpurpose, which they emphasize by shading andcontrast. The rising tide of population willsoon sweep quite around it,
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